Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-04-30
NEWS NUGGETS.
Extracted from the Mine of Mis-
cellaneOus Matters, on our
Claim, and Assayed for
our Delivers after
knowledge.
Notice the Output.

There are fourteen colored letter car
riers in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Bishop ]. M. Brown lectures in
Rochester, N. T., May 18th.
There are twenty colored men on
the police force, Of Pittsburgh, Pa.
Richmond, Va, has fourteen colored
undertakes and four colored physicians
There are nine colored members Of
the Florida House and two in the Senate.
r. f. Johnson, of Tully, N. Y, is the
only colored Justice of the Peace in New
York State.
Rev. M. T. Busby, colored, was elected
president Of the Y. M. G. A. at Buchtel,
o., recently.
The last issue Of the Peoples Advo-
cate, of Washington, D. G., began its
twelfth volume.
Mr.. Isaac Williams, colored, has been.
appointed Sergeant-at-Arms in the Gin.
cinnati Police Court
. Rev.W.M. Hargrave, has accepted a.call
to the pastorate of Knox Presbyterian.
church of Louisville, KY.
Mr.. George A. Bickle, colored, has
been admitted to the school of the Art
Students League Of New York.
Messrs. A. ]. Catlin, John D.. Easley,
and Richard Harris, all colored, are
serving on the Circuit Court jury in
Louisville, KY.
Henry Clay, the coloredice dealer and
street contractor, is prospective candi-
date for the council from the third ward,
of Indianapolis.
Mr.. J. II. Lott has been elected City
Attorney of Paxton, ILL.,, he is the first
colored man ever elected to such a
position in that state.
Messrs. F. j. r. Jones and Steven B.
Gibson, colored, of Philadelphia have
been appointed to clerkships in the
Office Of Receiver Of Taxes.
Mrs. Mary Beard, the colored clerk
in the Recorders Office, of Chicago, was
one of the twenty-five clerks dismissed
recently on the plea Of economy.
The School Board of Louisville, KY,
at its last meeting appropriated SIG, 600
to erect a new school building in the
city and 5000 for improvements
Three of the six students who will
graduate from Berea College, KY, in
June are colored. L. w. Williams, Of
Louisville, KY, will be valedlctorian.
A movement is on foot to erect
BIC, 900 monument at Boston, Mass, to
the memory of Crispus Attacks, one of
the first victims Of the Revolutionary
war.
There are three colored clerks regu-
larry employed in the county court
house, at Indianapolis, Ind: G. III.
Baughman, F. D. Welch and A. E.
Manning.
Rhode Island has colored legislator,
Mr.. Joseph II. Banks, elected at Proyi-
dence last week by the votes of the
Democrats and a faction known as the
Equal Rights Partv.''
Mr.. George w. Tanner, colored, Of Hi
nois, was appointed to clerkship in the
Pension Office, Washington, on the 10th.
instant, under the Civil Service Rules.
Mr.. Geo. j. Pryor, of Hampton, Va,
who held aclerkship ihs the same office
was dismissed on the 18th inst.
Capt. IA. Sykes, colored, formerly
editor of the Savannah Phoenix, was
last week convicted in the Superior
Court of Chatham County, Ga, of crim-
inal libel. He was fined $500 and SEN
fenced to jail for six months. He had
said of Peter Donegal, a colored letter
carrier, that he was "a viper, a loafer, a
hybrid and disgrace to the postal
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